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Manchester Blitz and the Sale Post Office

During the War, I worked at the post office in Sale, Manchester....

Cuddington Hospital to Chirk N.Wales

I suppose that because Mitcham Junction Railway Station was less than a mile away we were in the target...

Margaret Nicholls, Part 2 - The Bristol Bombings

When the German planes were bombing big towns in the Midlands they had to come over Bristol, so warnings...

My teen-Age Years in Wartime London

We were quite poor, my Dad worked on the railway and my Mum was a cleaner.I had one year's excellent...

A Boyhood Blitzed by War

So my mother, two sisters, my brothers Chris and Arthur and Jim, all climbed into the Anderson shelter in...

Not Another War

The river was easy for them to follow and helped them drop their bombs on the London dock area of East...

On the Home Front

The reason my parents wanted this was because they were Mayor and Mayoress of Dagenham and were going to be...

My First Weekend at the East End Mission

I had come to St. George's Church at the Shadwell end of Cable Street and Tom Collins was appointed to...

Some Memories, 1939-1945

Glenburn Street ran up from the junction of Ardgowan and Belhaven Streets at the Glen Bridge, and Clyde...

The Blitz in Bermondsey and Evacuation to Cornwall

This was all about to come to an end as we had to listen to that fateful speech by Chamberlain that we...

Childhood Pictures from the Devonport Blitz

It is an unusual album because it includes many sounds and smells: of our kitchen and the washhouse on...

Greenock in Wartime

I was in Lily Martins school of dancing and Jack Short came up to ask for six tall girls to act as...

WW2 in Mid Kent

A German aircraft, a Heinkel 111 if I remember correctly was shot down one night- probably in 1941, and the...

A Child's View of WW2 in Portsmouth and Cirencester

My Wifes Story At the begining of the war my wife Joan who was 2 and her brother Bill 4, cousins and...

My Recollection Of The War As Seen Thrrough The Eyes Of A Child

Whenever I took that car outside to ride it all the kids would pile on it as I was the only child...

Homeguard Memories

The weekly ticket for the bus from Dunstable town hall to Vauxhall cost 3 shillings and sixpence for 12...

The Blitz According to Jean Anderson

There, Joyce,May, Lilian, Jack, baby David and I all piled on and went to sleep... At home we feasted on...

WW 2.Memories of these times.

He had served in WW 1.as a military policeman.He had to sleep in the cellar of" The...

Recollections of World War 2

In those days, an army barracks known as Albany Barracks adjoined Parkhurst Prison where my father was a...

A Child's Eye View of the Birmingham Blitz: Parts 1 and 2

Well, Michael hates explosions but likes animals, so he can go and stay at Uncle Harry Claridge's farm...

Coping In the War: A boy Scouts Memory

We went to London , and there was hardly any traffic and we got to the Mall and stopped at the bottom...

The Coventry Blitz and 50th Anniversary

All those people of my own age-range, white haired, bespectacled, recalling briefly between hymns of how...

Wartime Schooldays-First Job

I was about to knock on the door of a house when the bombers dropped a stick of bombs that screamed down,...

Angel of Mercy-Childhood memories

When I arrived in D Block the war had still another six months left in which to run its course,...

My Early Memories dictated by Graham Johnson

My mum used to give the milkman's horse a carrot or two off dad's allotment. My aunt was working in...

Please Take Me Home: Evacuation to Winchester

In this front line city things were getting hotter and hotter, so Mum & Dad decided to move to a...